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RR No. 64. A NOBLE CAUSE BETRAYED... BUT HOPE LIVES ON

Title

RR No. 64. A NOBLE CAUSE BETRAYED... BUT HOPE LIVES ON

Subject

Pages from a Political Life: Memoirs of a Former Ukrainian Canadian Communist

Description

This political autobiography of John Boyd (Boychuk) is an edited and upgraded transcript of an interview that he gave in 1996 to the Cecil-Ross Society. It covers Boyd's full-time work in the Canadian communist movement; the role of Ukrainians in the Communist Party of Canada; Boyd's trips to China, the USSR, and Cuba; his assignment to Prague; and his resignation from the CPC over the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.